pf9 Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 OK, usually, the only real football action on Sundays is the NFL. That's all fine and dandy if your team is good, but if you live in an area where your team is bad consistently and are not a fan of said team, you would desire something better. It all came to a head in 2017, where the Browns finished 0-16, yet because of rules, Cleveland area residents were limited on what other Sunday afternoon action they could see without Sunday Ticket. Thus, I've proposed that starting next year, during the times when the NFL and CFB regular seasons overlap, ESPN2 flexes the three best games each week from conferences ESPN has the rights to to Sunday, airing at 12, 4 and 8 PM. ESPN can't do it because of other programming commitments. After bowl season starts, ESPN2 would likewise air bowl tripleheaders on some Sundays. In years where New Year's Day falls on a Sunday, the practice of moving the major bowl games to January 2 would be abandoned, so that people living in the same markets as a NFL team doing bad that year can watch better football on New Year's Day. There has been CFB on Sunday nights in competition with the NFL before, mainly from 2006-09 when ESPN aired CFB on some Sunday nights to replace the NFL package they lost to NBC. And, CFB regularly competes with the NFL on Thursday nights, often one CFB game scheduled that night has teams doing better than the NFL teams involved in their Thursday night game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beekay414 Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catcheryea Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 if your team is too bad to watch go do something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pf9 Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 I put "Don't Pick on the Grieving" as my user title for a reason. My dad passed away earlier this year. January to be exact. And I still have not gotten over it. So, if you want to pick on someone, pick someone is who is not grieving. I already put in some good reasons why this should happen. People in markets with bad teams deserve some quality football played on Sunday. If in 2017 an OSU game was moved to Sunday opposite a Browns game, I gladly would have watched the OSU game, and many others in Cleveland would have too. In the years after NFL lifted the blackout rules (seemingly permanently), there has been a huge increase in games that failed to have full stadiums on account of the team playing at home was bad that year. And there are numerous people in the Cleveland area who are Steelers fans instead, but they don't get to watch much of that team unless they have Sunday Ticket. And even that is exclusive to DirecTV at the moment (but hopefully not for much longer, especially if DirecTV owner AT&T competitor Comcast, owner of NFL broadcaster NBC, has their way). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candyman93 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 13 minutes ago, pf9 said: My dad passed away earlier this year. January to be exact. And I still have not gotten over it. I speak for everybody when I say I’m sorry this happened to you.  However, you’ve ALWAYS posted like this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pf9 Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 I wouldn't have posted it if I thought it wasn't a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pf9 Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 Plus, there's nothing in the American laws that says CFB can't go up against NFL on Sunday or Thursday (or even Monday). It's Saturday where this can't happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devils1854 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazer026 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Sunday’s belong to the NFL. CFB wouldn’t get nearly the views they usually do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NateDawg Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 First, let me say that I’m sorry about your dad. I’ve experienced it too and it sucks. Hang in there. I will also say that this isn’t a hall pass for avoiding criticism. People aren’t just going to pretend to agree with you. And I’m not sure why you would want that, this is a debate forum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malibuspeedrace Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexGreen#20 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Can we ban this dude from creating threads. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pf9 Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 Most of my ideas are better than you guys realize. They are certainly better than an idea I can't mention on here because it's too fickle a subject to talk about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pf9 Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 Furthermore, ideas thought up by people on the spectrum - like me - are often better than those thought up by normal people. Especially if they are high-functioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beekay414 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 9 minutes ago, pf9 said: Most of my ideas are better than you guys realize. They are certainly better than an idea I can't mention on here because it's too fickle a subject to talk about. They're not...at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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